This is making the rounds again, and thankfully so is the idea of taxing remittances.

The US should be taxing remittances no matter what!

Palau taxes remittances at 4% to mitigate this exact problem: the foreign cheap labor fails to pay into the tax system to cover the cost of their own services.

Kuwait (a country with a deliberate and incredible policy of "Kuwaitization," essentially reverse-DEI) also proposed a remittance tax between 1-5%.

Taxing remittances is a great immediate step to recouping some of the costs of immigration. It can also be done at the state level (Oklahoma has a tax on transfers sent outside the state for example). And Chip Roy
in Texas has been doing great work advocating for a remittance tax.

The long term solution is an immigration moratorium (the PAUSE act is another great piece of legislation to this end) paired with incentives for migrants to return, a.k.a. Remigration.

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🔗 Kuwaitization